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MARCH 14, 2011

For this morning's interview, we spoke with Scot Richardson , CEO of Los Angeles-based LaughStub (www.laughstub.com), which develops software which helps comedy clubs and others manage ticket sales, online marketing, and customer relationship management. What is Laughstub? For anyone that small, Ticketmaster doesn't make sense.

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Ticketmaster CTO Hire Tech Coast Angels Social Media 140

socalTECH

OCTOBER 23, 2012

How long have you been looking at this market? If you walk down the hallways of UCLA or USC, and ask them for the successful startups here, they can't name anyone. TX Zhuo: Someone on our team will try to respond to every email. The other way, is to email us at info@karlinvc.com. That's something we need to change.

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MARCH 26, 2012

We met at USC, and we had traveled a lot with study abroad programs. Instead, we ended up at the usual floating markets, the white elephant. Aigerim Duiseneyeva: We met with Idealab through a USC Marshall competition. There is no other site that helps you connect with people and also finds those with things in common.

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Startup Idealab USC Ideas 199

socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2019

We talked with Neal about how he figured out how to wrap those otherwise blank and empty trucks with ads, to help advertisers such as Ring, Mercury Insurance, MedMen, and others to run their marketing campaigns through a growing network of independent truck owners. I had been at USC, at the Etnrepreneurship program. What is Boxi?

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Advertising Santa Monica Startup USC 100

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DECEMBER 29, 2017

It's the emails from fans and the enthusiasm from founders that keeps driving me to be an evangelistto contribute my time to building the community through MAKE IT IN LA and telling the stories through my podcast. Z is known for curating and hosting the first ever TEDx (TEDxUSC) in 2009 and founding two innovation centers at MIT and USC.

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USC Startup News Entrepreneur 113

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Our continuing relationship with USC is precious in that regard. We've been able to harvest lots of scientific advances from Kevin Knight (editor's note: founder and Chief Scientist, and a researcher at USC's Information Sciences Institute), which we've been able to include in our business. We've been pretty happy.

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Software Review USC Content Tech Coast Angels 145

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 5, 2013

The USC Entrepreneur Club and the Kairos Society brought Howard Marks , a successful entrepreneur and founder and CEO of StartEngine , on campus to speak about his past experiences. Liu began by talking about her background, eventually explaining how she sent an email to Marks to get into StartEngine in a no Wi-Fi zone. “A

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Startup Los Angeles USC Southern California 107

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 11, 2013

“Technology allows us to aggregate, organize and bridge the asymmetry in markets,” said Eyerly, who also encouraged aspiring entrepreneurs to empower themselves by learning their respective markets. Surf Air’s Facebook page is currently managed by Surf Air Marketing Coordinator Mark Noble. Regional Roots.

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Social Media Startup Santa Monica Santa Barbara 89

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MARCH 19, 2019

Stacy and Darren, our other co-founder who's not here right now, actually graduated from USC. For us, that benefited Telesign as well, because the market was catching up to what we were offering. What were you doing before? Ryan Disraeli: I was actually in school at the time. What were you majoring in? I was about 19 at the time.

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Marina Del Rey Software Review Startup Incubator 113

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OCTOBER 2, 2015

Mitch Kahan: I graduated from USC, the cross town rivals with Avi. I saw my friends sending out hundreds of form emails, and was a huge process. We're going to start marketing this, and see whether people like it or not. Mitch Kahan: It's all about marketing. I wanted to date faster. We said what if we prearrange a date?

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Mobile Startup Ideas Sites 100

socalTECH

AUGUST 13, 2010

Having followed the firm since its early days as a spinout of USC, we thought we'd talk with CEO Mark Tapling to get the back story behind the acquisition, and where the firm is going form here. Then, for the last seven quarters, we embarked on our strategy of moving into the commercial market, and were quite successful there.

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Equity Startup Acquisition Funding 168

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AUGUST 24, 2010

We were literally on the cusp of launching our prpoduct, and all of our work and money to date had gone into getting the innovative technology out of Caltech, exploring the marketplace, and making sure the product features matched with the demand of the market, which it clearly did. Is there a market? Sharon Stevenson: That's correct.

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Startup Southern California Ideas Research 185

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

The best person I know to talk about the growing entrepreneurship culture on campuses is Alex Zhang, a student at USC and the Managing Director of the student-run incubator LavaLab. It requires a strong memorable ask to the deep abyss of email that hopefully gets to the right person when they’re in the right mood.

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Incubator Southern California LAVA Los Angeles 40

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

But putting no time into anchoring your beliefs because you’re too busy executing sales, marketing, support, product & engineering is an easy recipe for leadership drift. There are always flavors-of-the-month strategies or markets that are in favor in the tech startup world. We could all do better – I’m sure.

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Startup Coach Course Invest 150

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Viewer "@" Reply: Quality interaction with the show's chat room visitors and responses to viewer email, Tweets and call-ins. She has guest lectured on cyberlaw at USC's Annenberg School of Journalism. Follow TZ Tech Law on Twitter at @TZLaw. She has also published in the San Francisco Chronicle and Columbia Law Review.

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IP Social Network Technical Review Networking 81

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

If you look back, the original founder, Stephan studied at the USC Foreign School of Music, so there is a long standing connection with LA. All of our team consists of not only composers but also for example, Karl Moestl does the creative marketing and the artist relations for us. So different markets all together.

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Startup Artificial Inteligence Tool Product 101

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

Those who didn’t get a ticket in time, turned to Zaarly where tickets sold on the SUW “grey-market” for up to $450 per ticket (this being up for discussion with potential upcoming policy changes). Feel free to email or drop a tweet with any questions about the journey, no matter what stage you’re in. Rob Maigret. Scott Sangster.

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Los Angeles Startup Angel Tech Coast Angels 73

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with. The CitizenNet platform helps you measure, analyze, and automate social media marketing and engagement.

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